In the Terms and Conditions section

PRIVACY POLICY

Both Towcester and Onley Equine Vets (part of the larger Towcester Vets group) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This document (alongside our Terms & Conditions) sets out the basis of how we use any personal data we store about you. Please read the following criteria produced in line with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the new GDPR standards that are coming in to force on the 25th May 2018.

When “we” is stated it refers to Towcester & Onley Equine Vets collectively. When “you” is stated it refers to you, a client of our practice.

Your consent:

When registering with Towcester & Onley Equine Vets either on the phone or through www.towcester-vets.co.uk/equine , you understand that we will store your personal data on our database run by Eclipse Software and provide it to carefully selected third parties. We record all of our phone calls for training and monitoring purposes and this is stored securely with Rock Network.

What information do we collect and why:

When you register your horse, pony or donkey with either of our practices you will be asked to provide some essential information to create an account. This will be your:

full name

home address

email address

phone number

yard address

details of the animal you would like to register

These details are used to:

register you as a new client

register your equine for vaccine reminders

process the fees for your equine’s health care

contact you about your pet, account or credit status

using the details to prevent and detect fraud and to disclose to legal /debt recover processes if needed

Our company will never electronically store your card/ payment details.

We will ensure that no data your provide to our company will be used on devices that do not have the sufficient security measures in place.

These details will never be sent outside of the EU unless requested by you (the data subject) and only if the company abides by the EU general data protection regulation.

The use and disclosure of personal data:

You must give explicit consent for Towcester & Onley Equine Vets to disclose your data to 3rd party companies to provide you with certain services. We will often send some data to Zoetis (to enlist you for electronic vaccine reminders), insurance companies (your chosen insurance company when you are putting in a claim) and mail chimp (to keep in touch with you about events and offers our practice has to offer). If you’re not happy for your data to be disclosed then you must be aware that Towcester and Onley Equine Vets cannot take responsibility, for example missed vaccines and insurance claims.

If applicable we will contact you before any images, information and documents are used on our website and social media platforms. This consent will then be recorded on your account history. If you do not give consent your service from the practice will not be affected in anyway.

Your rights:

You have the right to remove your personal data from our system at any time, unless your data is required for debt/account recovery purposes, as part of an investigation or as part of our legal obligation under the RCVS to retain records for a period of 7 years following the last dated entry on your account.

If you would like to move practices we can send your a copy of your clinical history and remove your contact information from the record, however we will legally be storing the remaining record for 7 years.

Our website may contain external links to other websites that may not have the same security measures in place as our own. We try to not use these however we cannot take any responsibility for a data breach from any external site. Please check their privacy policy if you have any concerns about their website.

Cookies

In order that we can monitor and improve the Website, we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP (Internet Provider) address, operating system and browser. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements on the Website and to make the Website more user friendly. We use cookies so that we can give you a better experience when you return to the Website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You do not have to accept cookies and you should read the information that came with your browser software to see how you can set up your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This will give you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not. We may also use cookies to provide you with customised information from the Website.

Access rights:

You have the right to access any personal data stored about you that we hold. To obtain a full account history please contact our offices on either 01327 811007 or 01788 523000.

Changes to our privacy policy:

All changes to our privacy policy will be sent to clients who give consent for the us to use their email address. Alternatively this will be updated regularly on our website: www.towcester-vets.co.uk/equine.